[nickcarraway]

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[Salvation]

Thanks for posoting this.

[american colleen]

Father Joseph Fessio bump!

Thank you for a wonderful article.

[history_matters]

I was amazed. I called Professor William Mart, a Professor of Music at Stanford University and a friend. I said, “Bill, is this true?” He said, “Yes. The Psalm tones have their roots in ancient Jewish hymnody and psalmody.” So, you know something? If you sing the Psalms at Mass with the Gregorian tones, you are as close as you can get to praying with Jesus and Mary. They sang the Psalms in tones that have come down to us today in Gregorian Chant.

I have never seen this post before today. This is a great affirmation of what I have felt more by way of intuition than by learning. Thank you nickcarraway for a very useful and in its own way inspirational post.

[Askel5]

Thanks for the post, Nick.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Deo gratias.

Thanks for posting this.

[ninenot]

Muchas gracias, senor. This should be linked to the discussion of 'kneeling' as well. Some folks need enlightenment!!

[ultima ratio]

This is an old article. My guess is that Fr. Fessio has since come round to a more traditionalist perspective. The Council fathers, in fact, never envisioned a radical break with tradition--such as the Novus Ordo represents. At most they encouraged mere modifications here and there of the old Mass--minor changes which had always been deemed acceptible in order to adapt to modernity. What had not not been envisioned was outright opposition to the Council of Trent and the brutal method of imposition by modernist innovators in the name of Vatican II. The Novus Ordo may be legitimate--but it is Protestant in its Paschal-meal theology and Lutheran sensibility, and it is in many places invalid in one way or another. As such, it is dangerous to the Catholic faith.